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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

The husband and wife comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen repeated their success in vaudeville, film and radio with a show perfectly suited to the new medium of television.

The Georgian House

Eerie teenage drama series with a time-travel context.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir

When a woman and her two children move into a cottage they are not prepared for the fact that it already has an occupant. A ghost...

Front Page Story

All the drama of a Fleet Street newsroom

Fury

US & British co-production about a black stallion that no-one has yet been able to tame.

Gangsters

Hard hitting crime drama series inspired by the movie The French Connection.

GBH

Alan Bleasedale's Bafta-nominated political satire drama focussing on the fall of Michael Murray

Gentle Ben

Man's best friend in this series wasn't a dog but a huge bear...

The Frost Report

Political satire and current affairs in a sketch comedy format.

The Fugitive

"Name: Richard Kimble. Profession: Doctor of medicine. Destination: Death Row, state prison. Richard Kimble has been tried and convicted for the murder of his wife. But Richard Kimble is innocent..."

The Gathering Storm

It's the mid-1930s and MP Winston Churchill (Albert Finney), once the most dynamic Member of Parliament, finds both his public and private life in turmoil in this award winning co-produced UK & US drama.

The Gay Cavalier

Swashbuckling adventure as yet another historical rogue is turned into a hero for 1950s British television.

The Gentle Touch

Crime series featuring Jill Gascoine as Maggie Forbes, Britain's first female TV detective.

Friends

"Arguably one of the last great television phenomenon's of the last century."

Francis Storm Investigates

Children's detective series.

Freewheelers

Teenage high-action, high-adventure series about a group of teenage agents working under the umbrella of MI5

French and Saunders

The comedy sketch show French and Saunders, written by and starring the iconic comedy duo, first aired in 1987 and ran for a whopping 30 years.

Flipper

The show that was dubbed an "aquatic Lassie" - Flipper comes to the rescue in a series of nautical adventures.

Follyfoot

One of the most ambitious children's series undertaken by an Independent Television company involved the entire reconstruction of a farmhouse and its surrounding buildings on the estate of the Earl of Harewood.

Foo Foo

Foo Foo was created for ABC Television in the UK by Halas & Batchelor, who had been producing films since 1940.

For the Children

Just a year after experimental BBC television began broadcasting to a few hundred homes in London, a ten-minute show called For The Children made its debut.

For the Love of Ada

Gentle comedy series of the boy-meets-girl variety with a unique twist in that the boy and girl in question were both in their seventies.

Formula for Danger

A young boy is in possession of a secret formula that could spell disaster for the entire world.

Fortunes of War

At a cost of £6.5 million, Fortunes of War was, at the time, the most expensive BBC series ever made.

Fox

Thirteen-part series centred on the lives of the titular Fox family, who live in Clapham in South London and have gangland connections.

The Flower of Gloster

Afternoon TV series about four youngster pilot a narrow boat along the canals from North Wales to London and their adventures on Britain's inland waterways.

The Flying Nun

Of all the fantasy situation comedies that aired in the 1960's, The Flying Nun was one for the books. A 90 pound Catholic nun who takes flight when the wind blows up her habit...

The Fossett Saga

Victorian comedy series starring Jimmy Edwards as James Fossett, a writer of "penny dreadfuls"

The Fosters

Originally billed as a 'sparkling new comedy series' about life in a typical south London black family, The Fosters was anything but typical, new or original.

Flickers

Fresh from a third-rate career in the music halls, forty-year-old Arnie Cole (Bob Hoskins) has turned movie pioneer, showing single-reel films in makeshift cinemas during the first quarter of the twentieth century.